Featuring the new Mesa Christmas Market, which showcases dozens of vendors, visitors to Merry Main Street also will enjoy visits from Santa Claus, Santa’s sELFie Village, Jack Frost Food Truck Forest at Pioneer Park and much more.

Activities run throughout Downtown Mesa along Main Street, from Country Club Drive to just east of Mesa Drive, daily through Jan. 5.

Stargazers, get ready for a dazzling show Wednesday night into Thursday morning as the year's best meteor shower, the Geminids, reaches its peak. NASA says the shower will peak between 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 and dawn on Dec. 14.

Stargazers, get ready for a dazzling show Wednesday night into Thursday morning as the year's best meteor shower, the Geminids, reaches its peak. NASA says the shower will peak between 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 and dawn on Dec. 14.

Pigeons can be a pain. And once you get them, they're hard to get rid of. But some neighbors at one apartment complex near 28th Street and Osborn in Phoenix are worried about dead and dying pigeons. And no one is happy about what's left behind.

Pigeons can be a pain. And once you get them, they're hard to get rid of. But some neighbors at one apartment complex near 28th Street and Osborn in Phoenix are worried about dead and dying pigeons. And no one is happy about what's left behind.

A Guadalupe man is sitting in jail with a charge of second-degree murder after he allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend in front of her teen son, according to court documents. (Source: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)

A Guadalupe man is sitting in jail with a charge of second-degree murder after he allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend in front of her teen son, according to court documents.